Friday glee is finger-jamming down the side of the fridge

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.

It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big. Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.

N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.

To enhance this week's glee: Tom Randall lures innocent comp climber Hannes Puman into his crack-climbing ways on La Fuerza de la Gravedad, 8b+ roof crack.

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[seasonoftowers]

Started writing, but it got long and rambly and very gleeful so I turned it into its own post

https://seasonoftowers.dreamwidth.org/19946.html

[wpadmirer]

I went climbing Tuesday right after seeing the surgeon and finding out I'm having my appendix out this morning. Wasn't my best day of climbing - but MAN, it was fun!

[juliet]

L (aged 7) went climbing properly* for the first time and really enjoyed himself! He got to the top of 3 routes (the 'ladder' sub-V0 ones) and halfway up another couple. Which is pretty good for 7! Especially pleased for him as the first one he tried, he climbed several times, going a bit further every time, before he finally made it all the way up, and it was just really cool to see him stretching himself kind of moment-by-moment. His friend (similar age, quite a bit smaller) did really well too. Plans to return fortnightly...

Also I did a bit of climbing but it was L who I am more gleeful about :)

* I took him a couple of years ago, and they had small-enough shoes for him, but he only got about a metre off the floor and then had to be lifted down because he got stuck.